Amos Walker Books in Order

Detroit private investigator Amos Walker searches for a former mobster's missing adopted daughter, with a pornographic photograph as his main clue. The case draws him toward a kidnapping and a labor leader's murder.

Stripper Ann Maringer hires Amos Walker because she expects to disappear and wants someone to find her. When she vanishes and a body turns up in her apartment, the Detroit detective must unravel the danger she anticipated.

Amos Walker follows a trucker suspected of staging hijackings, only to be forced off the road. After the policeman who helps him is shot, Walker investigates a case that has suddenly become much more personal.

Newscaster Sandy Broderick hires Amos Walker to find his missing adult son while keeping the matter quiet. The young man's involvement with an addicted girlfriend takes Walker into Detroit's drug trade, threatening both lives and a public career.

An elderly woman asks Amos Walker to find her grandson, who disappeared nearly twenty years earlier after his father killed the family. The Detroit detective reopens the cold trail of a boy left alone with that tragedy.

When journalist Barry Stackpole disappears, his wartime friend Amos Walker searches for him. Newspaper clippings and an unfinished Vietnam novel draw the detective into apparently separate deaths, organized crime, and corruption within Detroit's police.

An old acquaintance asks Amos Walker to find the trombone-playing father she thought was dead. His search through Detroit's jazz clubs brings warnings from organized crime and exposes her to dangers bound up with the missing musician.

Richard DeVries hires Amos Walker after serving twenty years for a firebombing during Detroit's 1967 riots. Claiming he was framed to cover an armored-car robbery, he wants the detective to recover the stolen money as compensation.

Amos Walker is hired to investigate the husband Constance Thayer shot, hoping to uncover evidence that might help her defense. The dead industrialist's secrets lead him into a case involving gunrunners and powerful people.

A former actress introduces Amos Walker to a government assassin who wants help disappearing. The job becomes entangled with Walker's ex-wife, competing loyalties, and murder, leaving him to determine which stories he can trust.

Amos Walker searches for missing video producer Neil Catalin, whose fascination with film noir may hold a clue. A former mistress, business connections, and a growing murder investigation draw Walker through a Detroit summer plagued by power outages.

A dying architect hires Amos Walker to find whoever used a forged photograph to destroy his engagement years earlier. The detective's search for the source of that deception turns an old heartbreak into a current murder investigation.

Amos Walker guards a ransom exchange for a stolen medieval manuscript, but the assignment collapses into gunfire and disappearance. The ensuing investigation reaches back to the unsolved killing of his partner twenty years earlier.

A publisher hires Amos Walker to locate a pulp novelist who returned his advance and disappeared. Finding the writer brings Walker into a case connecting old paperback careers, a long-ago murder, and Detroit's troubled past.

Amos Walker is hired to find an automobile magnate's illegitimate descendants so his widow can share her fortune. Locating them seems easy, until violence and a kidnapping transform a family search into a dangerous investigation.

Singer Gilia Cristobal hires Amos Walker to locate a missing blackmailer whose information could expose her troubled past. When the woman turns up dead, Walker must find whoever now controls the secrets threatening his client.

Delivering a dying woman's ashes to her estranged son draws Amos Walker into two murders separated by decades. When the same gun links both deaths and suspicion falls on him, he must uncover the connection.

Still recovering from a gunshot wound, Amos Walker searches for the cigarette smuggler who saved his life. The disappearance leads toward counterfeiters and possible terrorist connections, while fresh violence and a murder accusation threaten his investigation.

A former baseball pitcher hires Amos Walker to investigate his daughter's fiancé, whom he suspects of fortune hunting. Her murder sends Walker after the missing suspect and into a web of gangsters, debts, and crooked police.

This collection brings together thirty-two previously published stories featuring Detroit private investigator Amos Walker, alongside a new story and the author's introduction. The shorter cases offer another view of the detective whose work anchors Estleman's long-running series.

A lawyer hires Amos Walker to challenge a gangster's old attempted-murder conviction, even though the victim was Walker's closest friend. Conflicting loyalties become harder to navigate when new killings complicate the investigation.

Hired to recover stolen television converter boxes, Amos Walker discovers they concealed a deadly shipment of heroin. As suspects are murdered, he must work through old alliances and enemies to locate the drugs and their traffickers.

Amos Walker tries to extract a young man from a Detroit gang at a friend's request. Murders, suspicious fires, and escalating street violence suggest the local feud conceals a larger conspiracy with international connections.

A missing woman's instruction to leave her alone only deepens Amos Walker's curiosity. His search uncovers a corpse, criminal connections, and foreign agents, drawing him into a dangerous scheme far beyond an ordinary marital disappearance.

Fresh from rehabilitation, Amos Walker investigates tips about a suburban man's unsolved murder. A public appeal, anonymous reward, and witness-protection connections draw him into conflict with officials while he struggles to control his own addiction.

Amos Walker locates a missing film director apparently murdered after disappearing with investors' money. When one client is arrested, Walker investigates again, finding that the evidence and continued attacks may conceal a far stranger explanation.

Three clients bring Amos Walker conflicting demands about a missing property developer. A death soon complicates the search, attracting police, federal authorities, and international criminals as Walker tries to determine whose interests he is serving.

Hit man Peter Macklin forces Amos Walker to protect his estranged wife while he pursues whoever threatened her. Suspicion points toward Macklin's equally dangerous son, placing the detective between two killers and competing family loyalties.

A government official hires Amos Walker to determine whether his long-missing wife is dead so he can remarry. Revisiting the disappearance uncovers a retired detective's suspicions and another killing connected to the abandoned car.

A chance encounter during a bank robbery leads Amos Walker to reinvestigate a decades-old murder conviction. The prisoner's sister wants exoneration, but reluctant witnesses, a true-crime celebrity, and the convicted man's despair obstruct the search.

Detroit private investigator Amos Walker receives news of his former wife's death and welcomes the distraction of a new case. A young aspiring investigative journalist seeks help after becoming dangerously overextended, drawing Walker into another inquiry where reliable truths are scarce.

A Cleveland automobile magnate hires Amos Walker to investigate his stepson's murder, suspecting a connection to insider trading. Following a former employee leads Walker into another killing and a web of secrets surrounding a private airfield.

As wildfire smoke blankets Detroit, Amos Walker investigates a junior lawyer's fatal hit-and-run and the confidential documents missing from his possession. Further deaths suggest the crash was deliberate, making the vanished file a dangerous prize.

Widow Sage Holland travels from Alaska to Detroit seeking protection from her husband's vengeful brother, who blames her for his death. Amos Walker's investigation uncovers further bodies as he struggles to keep his client and himself alive.